Jeb Bush Has An Obamacare Problem

This could get awkward. Since wrapping up his tenure as Florida
governor seven years ago, Jeb Bush has been quietly building a
fortune for himself, raking in millions of dollars from
consulting gigs, real estate investments, and that staple for
out-of-office politicians, speeches.

Yet Bush has also netted more than $2 million from his work as a
board member with Tenet Health Care,according to The New York
Times' Michael Barbaro. That tie could prove troublesome
for Bush if he runs for president in 2016 because Tenet, Barbaro
writes, "aggressively encouraged Americans to sign up for
insurance under the [Affordable Care Act] and trumpeted the
legislation as a boon to the company’s finances."

Though Bush is no fan of the law — he once called it "flawed to its core" — his
association with a group that effusively endorsed it could be a
stain on his resume. ObamaCare is such an anathema to
conservatives and the Tea Party that there are efforts afoot to
oust members of the party leadership who refused to play along
with the government shutdown last year in an ill-fated attempt to
defund the law.

That anger on the right could subside somewhat come 2016,
especially if ObamaCare continues to enroll people in bunches.
Still, it's not hard to imagine Bush's GOP opponents, should he
run for president, ganging up on him for his association with
Tenet, much like Mitt Romney's foes beat up on him for signing
off on Massachusetts' health-care overhaul.